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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Br. Adamson" data-source="post: 13392" data-attributes="member: 411"><p>Good point, i suppose later season open matings could favour cold-adapted genetics such as darker colour/cold tolerance more. Also i think i read that drones over 18 days are unlikely to fly out? I wonder if your chances of successful II are better with drones you know emerged recently? i.e. hives that you observed drone brood in rather than hives holding drones due to queenlessness/weak queen pheremone levels. It really intrigues me that this research, which looks like it might have some good practical applications was completely buried. I presume the author self funded it so was under no obligation to present his findings, plus conference/field-day organisers etc can only get speakers they actually know about!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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